- Location(s): Varanasi
- Genre(s): Biography, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 400 BCE–200 CE
The Kama Sutra is the most widely read treatise on sex ever written, though the man who chronicled all there was to experience between men and women remains, for the most part, a mystery. In The Ascetic of Desire,...
- Location(s): Hiroshima
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1945
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF A HIROSHIMA SURVIVOR ENCOUNTERED ONE OF THE SCIENTISTS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ATOMIC BOMB? This is the way Emiko Amai recalls August 6th, 1945 – the day she survived the Hiroshima bomb. Emiko was six years...
- Location(s): England, India
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Historical
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century/21st Century
Through ten decades and across three continents, The Ash Museum is an intergenerational story of loss, migration and the search for somewhere to feel at home. 1944. The Battle of Kohima. James Ash dies leaving behind two families: his...
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Post WW2
1947 and Gregor Reinhardt has been hired back onto Berlin’s civilian police force. The city is divided among the victorious allied powers, tensions are growing, and the police are riven by internal rivalries as factions within it jockey for...
- Location(s): Turkmenistan
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): early 21st century
Suspense, intrigue and lots of action are packed together in a riveting tale of greed and revenge that’s set in the obscure but gas-rich Central Asian Republic of Turkmenistan – Population: 5.1 million, Capital: Ashgabat, and home to billionaire...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16th Century
Valentina Riccardi is many things: beautiful, cultured, deadly. As one of Venice’s famous courtesans, she’s perfectly positioned to seduce powerful men, get them alone, and assassinate them. Spies. Traitors. Who they are doesn’t matter—only that they made an enemy...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Adventure, Children
- Era(s): 79AD
Jonathan goes on a secret quest to Rome, and Flavia, Nubia and Lupus set out to find him. Their dangerous mission takes them to the Golden House of Nero where a deadly assassin is rumoured to be at work...
- Location(s): Northern Spain
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): 1938
September 1938 and foreign correspondent Jack Telford joins a tour bus on one of General Franco’s battlefield propaganda trips hoping to find the hidden stories of the Spanish Civil War. But what he finds instead is murder, mayhem and...
- Location(s): Netherlands
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
- Location(s): Oslo
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Noir
- Era(s): 1920s/30s
Oslo, 1938. War is in the air and Europe is in turmoil. Hitler’s Germany has occupied Austria and is threatening Czechoslovakia; there’s a civil war in Spain and Mussolini reigns in Italy. When a woman turns up at the...
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